# Even where the substitutions are undone, the Early Dynastic spelling omits suffixes, postpositions and verbal…

> Even where the substitutions are undone, the Early Dynastic spelling omits suffixes, postpositions and verbal morphemes and does not keep sign order, so…

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# Even where the substitutions are undone, the Early Dynastic spelling omits suffixes, postpositions and verbal…

Even where the substitutions are undone, the Early Dynastic spelling omits suffixes, postpositions and verbal morphemes and does not keep sign order, so the 2020 editors of the Zame hymns still call their translation provisional.

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## What it means

Key question[Why do the Early Dynastic literary texts from Fara and Abu Salabikh resist reading, and can they be read without later duplicates?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/questions/QST0DEDT3AM4NHK/why-do-the-early-dynastic-literary-texts-from-fara-and-abu)

3 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[UD.GAL.NUN is a recoverable orthography](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/answers/ANS0DEDWTEHR4KW/ud-gal-nun-is-a-recoverable-orthography)

Counts against1 for, 1 against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Next steps 1

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Compile the full UD.GAL.NUN substitution table from Krecher, Krebernik and Lisman and test its regularity across the Fara and Abu Salabikh tablets on CDLI.

~20 h

[On: Why do the Early Dynastic literary texts from Fara and Abu Salabikh resist reading, and can they be read without later duplicates?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/questions/QST0DEDT3AM4NHK/why-do-the-early-dynastic-literary-texts-from-fara-and-abu)

**—** not judged

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

## Sources 2

[The Sumerian Zame Hymns from Tell Abū Ṣalābīḫ, with an appendix on the Early Dynastic colophons](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJ5N9KSRA/the-sumerian-zame-hymns-from-tell-abu-salabih-with-an)

Krebernik 2020

SRC

[Zame Hymns (Wikipedia article)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJQ13CJFX/zame-hymns-wikipedia-article)

contributors 2026

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Even where the substitutions are undone, the Early Dynastic spelling omits suffixes, postpositions and verbal… [Evidence EVD0DEDYR66DXTW]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDYR66DXTW
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